[HOP-2420] Field splitter: add support for escape string

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.60
• Component/s: Transforms
• Labels: low-hanging-fruit pull-request-available pull-requests-available quick_to_fix
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Matt Casters
• Created: 14/Jan/21 08:12
• Updated: 28/Mar/21 09:59
• Resolved: 16/Jan/21 10:31

Description

If you have a delimiter like a colon : and you want to include it in a string you can either wrap it in an enclosure or escape the character in question.  We need support for reading those sets of data that have escaped characters in it.

Example: 

 

aaa:123.4:c:ddd-dd:eeee\\:\\:eee:fff

Should be split to: 

aaa
123.4
c
ddd-dd
eeee::eee
fff

with delimiter

:

and escape characters

\\

    

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #555